Jason Perseus
Jason Perseus  ·  last month
Nothing could be more of an example of why monopolies suck than Google search.

Went from great to shitty in a few years as they ruined it for various forms of incidental revenue.

Now we have no good alternatives because they dominated the market.

(I know there is DuckDuckGo, but it has never been as good as Google. Closer now but that, imo, is because Google is trash now.)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/googles-ai-deals-could-hurt-its-search-monopoly-appeal-expert-says/

#tech #uspol #politics #uspolitics #monopoly #doj

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  2 months ago
…It’s hard to believe that the members of #TenetMedia “didn’t know” anything about the scheme. In fact, you can watch Pool describe nearly exactly what he engaged in, during a podcast conversation:

#complicity#RightWing#MAGA#Republicans#TenetMedia#RussianPropaganda#Russia#StateMedia#DOJ #law #democracy#MediaLiteracy

Pool describes nearly exactly what he engaged in
Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  2 months ago
The #indictment charges 2 #RussiaToday [#RT] employees w/providing nearly $10M to the #media company that often spouted #Kremlin talking points.

In response to the charges, the pundits & their allies are saying they just didn’t know any better. In fact, they’re the real victims.

🎻

[open your freaking eyes, listen to the widely available intelligence, educate your-damn-self, fools!]

#complicity#RightWing#MAGA#Republicans#TenetMedia#RussianPropaganda#Russia#StateMedia #law #democracy

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  2 months ago
“Should these allegations prove true, I as well as the other personalities & commentators were deceived,” Pool wrote.🙄

Johnson echoed the line, writing, “We are disturbed by the allegations in today’s indictment, which make clear that myself & other influencers were victims in this alleged scheme.”

#complicity#RightWing#MAGA#Republicans#TenetMedia#RussianPropaganda#Russia#StateMedia#DOJ #law #democracy#MediaLiteracy

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  2 months ago
#MAGA#Republicans are more than happy to excuse the #FarRight #influencers at the center of a #RussianPropaganda scheme.

#RightWing influencers like Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Lauren Southern, & Benny Johnson all worked w/ #TenetMedia, a #Tennessee-based firm that the #DOJ revealed Wed was secretly funded by #Russia#StateMedia employees in “a scheme to create & distribute content to #US audiences w/ hidden Russian govt messaging.”

#law #complicity #democracy
https://newrepublic.com/post/185647/maga-russian-propagandists-victims-pool-johnson-rubin-tenet-media

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  3 months ago
In one video, Bethany Kozma, a #conservative activist & fmr deputy chief of staff at the US Agency for International Development [#USAID] in the #Trump admin, downplays the seriousness of #ClimateChange & says the movement to combat it is really part of a ploy to “control people.”

“If the American people elect a conservative president, his administration will have to eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere,” Kozma says.

#Trump#Vance#HeritageFoundation#FarRight

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  3 months ago
In the video, Kozma calls the idea of #gender fluidity “evil.” Another speaker, Katie Sullivan, who was an acting asst AG at the #DOJ under #Trump, takes aim at executive actions by the admin of President #Biden that created gender adviser positions throughout the #federal govt. The goal, Biden wrote in one order, was to “advance #EqualRights & opportunities, regardless of gender or gender #identity.”

#Trump#Vance#HeritageFoundation #extremism #radicalization#FarRight
#law#HarrisWalz2024

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  3 months ago
However, a trial will not be possible before his November #election matchup against MVP #Harris …because whatever the judge decides is expected to wind up back before #SCOTUS next year.

#Legal analysts noted that nearly 5 weeks after the #SupremeCourt issued its landmark decision in Trump v. United States, some of the urgency that once drove the #ElectionInterference case has dissipated.

#law #criminal#ElectionInterference #conspiracy#TrumpTrial#Jan6#Insurrection#NationalSecurity

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  3 months ago
“There’s no point in haste now, because there’s no way to do the #trial now before the #election,” fmr federal prosecutor & George Washington University #law professor Randall Eliason said. If #Trump wins in Nov & returns to the White House in Jan, his #DOJ would be expected to drop the case, & he could not be prosecuted while in office anyway.
“If he loses, there will be plenty of time to do a trial next year & get all the issues right,” Eliason said.

#criminal#ElectionInterference#Jan6